The ULTIMATE Guide to Catholic Meditation (Part 2)
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- čas přidán 22. 01. 2024
- Ave Maria! In this second talk of Fr. Philomeno's eight part series on how to meditate, we learn how best to prepare for meditation: what we should read, what posture we should adopt, and how to avoid daydreaming during the time of prayer. Father also gives us some important steps to begin our meditation in order to gain the assistance of the Holy Spirit, Our Lady and our patron saints.
Meditation is the surest means, outside the Liturgy, to grow in holiness, so why not start now?
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Fr. Philomena you are such a blessing! I love your Homilies & Talks. You dig into the DIRECT cause of our Sin & then show us HOW & WHY to STOP Sinning. Thank you for Telling It Straight without sugar. We need this to ever reach Heaven!! May God protect you as our wise Shepherd
Praise God in heaven the first part of this series really got me thinking about my prayer life and how little meditating I was doing. It’s a great thing to work on especially now lent is coming soon. The distractions can be a virtue if we keep returning to God in our minds.
Do not be conformed to the world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. God bless everyone.
Thank you Father Philomena, very helpful talks! We are all called to Sainthood…
I’m very grateful for your talks! Praise be to God for your guidance….🙏
This is exactly what I needed to hear…Less of me and more of God’s Will, to be put into practice daily! Come Holy Spirt come, your well beloved spouse! Praise be to God for our HOLY FAMILY. Jesus, Mary and Joseph, I Love You, save souls! Amen 🙏♥️🙏♥️🙏♥️
By God’s grace after I say my rosary my deliverance prayers and just other prayers vocal prayers I have been meditating for about eight years now and I always pick up a book 1st and then I read it and whatever speaks to my heart I talk to the Lord about it and then I thank him and ask him for graces to practice certain virtues he’s requiring of me but I don’t do this the night before and I find this video so helpful . I kept asking Jesus why I’m not advancing in the spiritual life from what I gather I don’t have a spiritual Director but I’m Catholic, I go to mass every Sunday and often during the week and adoration once a week[ by the grace of God] I go to confession once a month as well. ,but something is wanting in me and this video helped thank you so much I will do that I will put my consideration/preparation on a index card and I will follow through with your advice the night before so that in the morning I meditate better. I find I’ve been saying perhaps to many vocal prayers that I lose the time for meditation and the Lord has let me see that this is not To be. My favorite books of the diary of Saint Faustina and Saint Teresa of Avila’s books. I find also very good meditations in a book called holy simplicity and as you can see from this long note I like that
Thank you
Thank you Fr Philomeno. That is a wonderful talk, very helpful. Ave Maria. God bless. Greetings from Poland 🙏
Thank you Fr, I'm so grateful for such clear and informative teaching on how to be holy and get closer to our Beloved Lord and Holy Mother! Prayers for you, (the Frs and Brothers) and everyone from New Zealand 🙏✝️❤️
Thank you father
Father, I listened to this talk again last night. I was inspired by your suggestion of meditating on the 7 sorrows of Our Blessed Mother.
My preparation was to read the first sorrow. The Presentation in the temple. From the book "The Virgin Mary in The Kingdom of The Divine Will. This morning, I meditated on what I read last night.
Thank you for your beautiful teachings. we are bkessed to have you Shepherd us. Always in my prayers.
God bless you
Thank you so much for your wisdom and insight Fr Philomeno...wonderful to see and hear the joy emanating from your soul...looking forward to the next episode 🙏
Thank you Father listen to the video this is the problem even though I have been faithful to my 30 minutes sometimes an hour at 6 AM I wake up say the Angeles and by 630 after coffee I go to my prayer chair light my candle bless myself and asked the indication of the Holy Spirit and I read the Fiat to God but I do not pick the preparation the night before I see my vocal prayers then the rosary and then have very little time left for talking to the Lord and sometimes also reading too much before I talk to the Lord thank you thank you thank you what a blessing
Our lady of sorrows ❤…. Consoling her ❤
Thank you very much. How to pray well/better is so welcome. The part about getting ready ahead of time with a plan is reverent, is actionable and wise. Looking forward to the next video.
Thank you for making this knowledge available.
Thank you Father Philomeno.
Thank you Fr
Great advice re preparation thank you Father 🙏
God bless you, Father. Just what I need at the moment. I recently turned back to our Lord, Jesus, having this huge urge to pray both mental prayer and the rosary, but needed guidance, and found your videos. 🙏🏻
Thank you, Father. Greetings from Philadelphia, USA
I admit to listening to your words of wisdom late at night before bedtime! You are calming and inspiring
Can some more specific examples of considerations be provided in the comments? This part seems difficult for me. Thank you.
Ave Maria! In the next video of this series, Father will be speaking about the considerations specifically, with examples. Hopefully this will help - it will be uploaded next week. God bless.
Thank you Fr. Philomeno!
I remember the roosters crowing loudly in Medjugorje!
In a quiet location it's not so annoying.
I went to a Christian meditation retreat with Fr. Lawrence
Freeman based on an ancient book, The Cloud of Unknowing.
The idea is to empty the mind and repeat "the little word",
such as Maran atha or Peace. Be still! Breathing in and breathing
out.
My spiritual reading at the moment comprises a number of books:
To the priests, Our Lady's Beloved Sons. (Marian Movement of Priests)
Consecration to St. Joseph by Fr. Donald Calloway.
Teacings on the Divine Will to Luisa Piccarreta by Susanne James.
The Notebooks by the mystic Maria Valtorta
I rarely get more than four hours sleep but not by choice! Guess that’s not heroic then 😬
I sleep 4 to 5 hours a night. I'm 68 years old, I can't sleep longer!😅
For the record I do not have camel knees 🐪🤣
Where is part 3????
Ave Maria! It will be published next week. God bless.
Feel proud for what you are doing father:
Pope Benedict XIV, grants an indulgence of seven years and seven times forty days, every time, to all those who, in a church or elsewhere, either in public or in private, shall teach the manner in making mental prayer, as well as to those who attend such instruction, provided that each time, being truly penitent, they confess their sins and receive Holy Communion. To those who shall teach assiduously the way to make mental prayer, as well as to those who shall, with the same assiduity, learn how to make it, the same Pope grants a penary indulgence once a month, on any day, when, being truly penitent, after confession and Communion, they shall pray for the peace and union among Christian princes, for the extirpation of heresy, and for the triumpgh of the Church. These indulgences are applicable to the souls in Purgatory.
[Taken from The Ascetical Works Volume III The Great Means of Salvation and of Perfection (by St. Alphonsus De Ligouri)]